10/7/2020· Attorney Fees
Audit Standards Of Review For Attorney Fees
In conducting a legal fee audit, the framework of the analysis considers three primary standards: the rules of professional services provided by the California Bar, the retainer agreement, and applicable court standards. Those three standards reflect a balance between the interests of the attorney's client and the economic interests of the attorney as a professional service provider.
9/29/2020· Appraisal & Valuation
Part 2: AIRA Issues New Standards for Distressed Business Valuation
By: Michael Pakter
In this second article on AIRA Standards, the author discusses unique issues valuing distressed companies. These include the standard of value used, the premise of value, the intended use of the valuation, and cost of capital.
9/16/2020· Education & Schools
Getting Students Back To School During COVID-19
By: Ned Einstein
Because of social distancing, classrooms and schoolbuses can only be filled to one-fourth of their capacities. This constraint alone requires that a broad range of dramatic changes be made in order for our children to return to physical school without placing out entire population at greater risk than we already are.
8/20/2020· Employment
How Businesses Can Overcome Age Discrimination In The Workplace
By: Dr. Linnda Durré
Here's how businesses can institute new polices requiring all employees to participate in fun and informative workshops to overcome ageist assumptions about younger workers or seniors. Get rid of prejudices and limiting beliefs that prevent camaraderie, productivity, and profits.
8/5/2020· Transportation
Motorcoach Survival In The Age Of COVID-19 (Part 2)
By: Ned Einstein
Hopes, dreams, truth, lies, prayers and politics aside, one of the burning industry questions is: How do we get on the road again? In Part 1 of this series, I outlined a number of important roles motorcoaches could and should have played immediately when the outbreak began. Performance of these roles would have helped the country cope with the virus. It would have helped the industry, its businesses and its drivers survive it. It would have negated the related interruption in production, marketing, sales and maintenance of vehicles in support of this continuity.
7/26/2020· Accounting
How To Identify A Company's Financial Distress By Using Cash Flow Statements
By: Michael Pakter
It is essential that creditors, managers, and shareholders - as well as the attorneys who advise them - timely identify and respond to signs of a company’s financial distress. Financial distress, according to Investopedia, “is a condition in which a company or individual cannot generate revenue or income because it is unable to meet or cannot pay its financial obligations
7/10/2020· Employment
Age Discrimination In The Corporate World: "OK Boomer!" Stereotypes Of Seniors
By: Dr. Linnda Durré
Age discrimination is a global phenomenon and perpetuates unfair, unjust and untrue stereotypes of seniors. Corporations think they are saving money by replacing older workers with younger ones. Cheaper doesn't mean better. Widespread lawsuits claiming and proving ageism are a way seniors can fight age discrimination and change laws.
5/22/2020· Ethics / Ethical Duties
Financial Advisors: What Is A Fiduciary And Why Does It Matter?
By: Marguerita Cheng
When selecting a financial advisor, people are often confronted with a seemingly simple yet undeniably important question: What is a fiduciary and why does it matter?
5/22/2020· Automotive - Vehicular
Drivers v. Robots: The Starting Five (Part 5)
By: Ned Einstein
The consequences of robots provide a stark contrast to the glistening, beautifully designed, brilliantly engineered, clean fuel-burning, energy-efficient vehicles displayed on the pages of NATIONAL BUS TRADER and other trade magazines. They are often creatively-deployed in well-marketed services, often optimizing both safety and comfort instead of trading one for the other
4/16/2020· Transportation
Safety and Liability: Motorcoach Survival in the Age of COVID-19 (Part 1)
By: Ned Einstein
I would normally begin a series by exploring the origin of the problems. These would have included four decades of failure in multiple sectors of public transportation. Among its fellow modes, the motorcoach industry created the fewest of these failures. But the motorcoach industry has been limited in its capabilities...
